It is no exaggeration to say York's Centre for Lifelong Learning changed my life. A creative writing course led by @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social has resulted in novels published, new friends, and later this year, I very much hope, a PhD. It's such a loss.

She’s here! And resplendent in gold foil! Available to preorder @faberbooks.bsky.social and out in a few weeks. Featuring 2 new graphics by the award-winning Cherokee artist Rebecca Lee Kunz. 🌻

Drunk on sunshine and wild swimming. Also one little glass of rosé.

📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...

The online edition of the Mary Hamilton Papers is finally getting its long-expected major refresh on 5 June: numerous corrections to transcriptions and mark-up, revisions to person identifications and improved tooltips, plus about 100 items newly transcribed. Watch for announcement! #18thC #langsky

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

Then what is the fucking point in replacing Starmer with another coward?

This is a bit of a niche one, but we need all the help we can get at the moment

Bump for the weekend crowd. Thanks so much to everyone who’s already shared!

Really looking forward to this celebration of Judith Hawley: wickedly erudite and witty scholar of the #18thcentury. @royalholloway.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-celebrat...

Bump for the evening crew. Please spread far & wide! Thanks so much to everyone who’s shared already, bunch of legends you are.

That Streeting resignation letter in full:

Well, happy 230th anniversary to Edward Jenner carrying out the first successful vaccination against smallpox, opening up a field of science which has saved a number of lives too unfathomable to count, and which continues to be uncontroversial and widely accepted to this day

Calling A-level English teachers! Do you teach Austen, Brontë, or other 18thc stuff? Could you use a set of free research-informed teaching materials, which support students' historical, literary, & linguistic understanding, & foster debate about misogyny, consent, & healthy relationships? (1/?)

New Open Research in Practice case study: @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social describes how an innovative, open access digital edition of the archive of Bluestocking writer Mary Hamilton (1756-1816) enabled new research and public engagement 📜🪶🔓 uoy.atlassian.net/wiki/x/awBEIQ

Sophie 1-0 Pulmonary embolism Birthday 10k tradition observed (albeit at the gentlest of paces). 42 seems very nice indeed, and i’m feeling more than usually lucky to age up a level.

Guys, the SEN solicitor said our Annual Review paperwork was among the best she’s ever seen *preens*

I am not the most patriotic sort, but i maintain that a beautiful warm spring day in britain is better than a beautiful warm spring day anywhere else, because people LOSE THEIR SHIT

Final plug for this bad boy, tomorrow evening. New research on scribbles in baronetages and Austen’s composition of PERSUASION.

Very sad. An endlessly informative, smart, entertaining & kind old-timer from Back When Twitter Was Good. I will miss him on my timeline.

@pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social hello! I just wanted to double check if Michael & Deven’s talk later today will be recorded & put on the youtube channel? Am keen to tune in but time difference making it a bit tricky.

V excited to be delivering this online talk for the wonderful @chawtonhouse.bsky.social on the evening of April 23rd. Book tickets now if you want to hear more about why I think Fanny Knight was the prototype for Sir Walter Elliot! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...

A Thing That Has Been Going On With Me Lately: or, Why I Will Regretfully Not Be Attending ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social: A few weeks ago, I posted this - & was immediately told by @gwenynen.bsky.social & several others to get off Bluesky & get to the GP pronto. Pretty smart of them, because (1/?)

English and Arts and Creative Technologies are delighted to welcome applications to our new MA in Creative Writing. To find out more about how to develop your creative writing skills whilst analysing the critical histories that influence them, visit our website or be in touch.

Look! It's finally happening, I'm so excited! Please share with your friends, people who assign books, and pets.

I've just seen that the link to the IPSEA 'Write to your MP' template letter is broken. Here's a working link. www.ipsea.org.uk/write-to-you...

Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

Look at the great poster the U of Connecticut made for me--incorporating the witty trade card of Elizabeth Griffin, mid #18thc London map & printseller. Immodest of me--but I believe my talk (3/26, 4pm) will be live-streamed, so pls let me know, farflung Bsky pals, if you'd like more info'.

I’m chuffed to be back on the @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social airwaves tomorrow evening, celebrating the 300th anniversary of Dr Charles Burney (the music one, not the book thief one) AND the 250th anniversary of his General History of Music - a milestone in musicology. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

No Doubt ‘Don’t Speak’ busts right through the must-be-more-than-one-song rule.

We were interviewed as part of the research for the Brexit Couples project, housed at Bristol, report now out: I burst into tears during the interview and apparently that happened fairly often - brexitcouples.ac.uk/publications...

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte... @bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

📢 Call for applicants! We are delighted to announce the SIMS-CSMC Fellowship, set up with our colleagues @sims-mss.bsky.social. It supports innovative approaches to the study of manuscripts and includes time at SIMS in Philadelphia and at CSMC in Hamburg. Apply by 1 May 2026! More info:

“To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France”

This is the most AI thing that could possibly have happened. AI+. No notes.

Happy publication day to 'Hilary Mantel', published by @livunipress.bsky.social Thrilled to have been able to undertake this project with the support of the excellent LUP team. It's currently 20% off on the LUP website too! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Goodwin lol more like Matt Badloss

Best thing I've read on the SEND reforms: personal, really lucid, great on the policy context jimlauder.substack.com/p/the-white-...

6 days left to get your free download of Disability & the Gothic.

Adapt The Castle Of Otranto, you cowards

iambic tetrameter ass stick

Superb guide to the govt's SEND plans. Without Special Needs jungle, the conversation would be sorely lacking. Must-read!

Christ, this is awful

Regardless of the White Paper’s merits, today may be a difficult day for SEN parents in your life. Please be nice to them. It is hard to see these conversations carried out mostly by politicians/media with zero idea of the agony, humiliation & expense involved in fighting for your child’s rights.

Chris Harding kindly hosted a conversation with Rosina Buckland and I on BBC 3 about the Samurai exhibition at the British Museum. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

OH MY GOD